Lace.



A. 1. SAYWELL.

LACE.

APPLICATION FILED )ULY l0. 916.

Patented oet'. 2,1917.

IN VENTOR.

BYU Q ATTORNEY ALFRED J'. SAYWELL, 0F PAWTUCKET, RHODE ISLAND.

LACE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 2, 1917.

Application led July 10, 1916. Serial No. 108,384.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED J. SAYwv a citizen of the United States, residing at Pawtucket, in the county of Providence and State ot' Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lace, of which the following is a specication.

My invention relates to lace and particularly to such lace as is used for corsets, night gowns, and other articles of clothing or underclothing wherein a binding ribbon or other ribbon or strip of distinctive color is inserted into the margin or elsewhere.

The essential objects of my invention are to produce a lace wherein the ribbon may be dispensed with and the lace still retain an appearance of its presence, so that to the observer the lace retains all the apparent characteristics et color and texture that would be evident if the ribbon were present; also to save expense.

To the above ends primarily my invention consists in such parts, and combinations of parts, and in such steps and succession of steps as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings which form a part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a length of lace embodying my invention and made in accordance with my improved process, and

Fig. 2, a like elevation of a modified form of the same.

Similar characters of reference indicate like parts throughout the views.

In the drawings A represents a length of lace comprising a net body consisting oit preferably cotton thread a twisted or woven in any usual or desired design. The thread is preferably substantially white in color. Near the upper margin of the strip A are spaced parallel longitudinally disposed lines of threads or weaving b, and in the area between these lines is twisted or woven, in the plane of the net body, certain figures CJ consisting of vertically disposed silk threads c parallel with each other and in contact with each other forming a substantially or comparatively heavy or close area. The areas C are preferably oblong 1n outline and disposed in a longitudinal series, each area being separated from the next adjacent one by vertical cotton threads D.

The described strip is next submitted to a bath in a liquid dye which is active upon the silk threads c but which is inactive upon the cotton threads of which the remainder of the lace is composed. Thus the resultant fabric presents to the eye the areas C of any desired color, such as blue or pink. The intermediate or separating threads D, being white, assists to give to the observer the imtpression that a colored ribbon is threaded through the lace, and that it passes beneath the portions D.

The construction shown in Fig. 2 differs from that of Fig. 1, in that the colored area C is continuous rather than separated at intervals, and thus presents the appearance of an unthreaded ribbon attached to or engaged in the lace.

I claim l. A corset lace strip or the like, comprising a body composed ot a net work of white cotton threads, and a longitudinally disposed area of transversely disposed closely set silk threads of another color, whereby the appearance of an inserted ribbon is produced.

9.. A corset lace strip or the like, comprising a body composed of a cotton net work ot one color, longitudinally disposed oblong areas of closely set parallel silk threads of another color in Contact with each other, and lgroups ot vertically disposed cotton threads of like color to the network separating the areas, whereby the appearance of an inserted ribbon is produced.

3. A. process for making a corset lace strip or the like consisting in forming an ornamental network body of cotton thread and simultaneously forming therein' a rectilinear area or areas comprising closely arranged silk threads, and then submerging the entire strip in a bath of liquid dye active upon the silk areas and non-active upon the cotton net work body.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature.

ALFRED J, sAYwELi..

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